כָּרַת

ka.rat · to cut: eliminate

Hebrew · Strong's H3772 · Verb · Sounds like: kaw-rath' · 288 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to cut: eliminate H3772I · a Meaning of 137
  • to cut: make(covenant) H3772H · a Meaning of 88
  • to cut: cut H3772G 52
  • to cut: lack H3772J · a Meaning of 11

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces); be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כָּרַת 291 vb. cut off, cut down
Qal
1. cut off
2. cut down
3. hew, timber
4. cut, or make a covenant
Niph.
1. be cut off
2. be cut down
3. be chewed between the teeth
4. be cut off, in a more general sense fail
Pual
1. be cut off
2. be cut down
Hiph.
1. cut off, flattering lips
2. cut off, destroy the life of
3. cut down, destroy, cities
4. take away
5. permit to perish

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 9:11 יִכָּרֵ֧ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

  2. Genesis 15:18 כָּרַ֧ת ka.Rat · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

  3. Genesis 17:14 וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

  4. Genesis 21:27 וַיִּכְרְת֥וּ vai.yikh.re.Tu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.

  5. Genesis 21:32 וַיִּכְרְת֥וּ vai.yikh.re.Tu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

  6. Genesis 26:28 וְנִכְרְתָ֥ה ve.nikh.re.Tah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee: and we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,

  7. Genesis 31:44 נִכְרְתָ֥ה nikh.re.Tah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

  8. Genesis 41:36 תִכָּרֵ֥ת ti.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

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